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2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
126
Citations
51974
World Ranking
495
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Israel Vlodavsky is primarily affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. The researcher's work spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 139 publications, and Medicine, with 63 publications. Key subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Surgery, Oncology, and Infectious Diseases.

Vlodavsky's main research topics cover areas such as proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research, fibroblast growth factor research, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, pancreatic function and diabetes, COVID-19 clinical research studies, Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer, and protease and inhibitor mechanisms.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • The Potential of Low Molecular Weight Heparin to Mitigate Cytokine Storm in Severe COVID-19 Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study, 2020, Clinical and Translational Science
  • Parabacteroides produces acetate to alleviate heparanase-exacerbated acute pancreatitis through reducing neutrophil infiltration, 2021, Microbiome
  • Extracellular matrix-based cancer targeting, 2021, Trends in Molecular Medicine
  • The potential of low molecular weight heparin to mitigate cytokine storm in severe COVID-19 patients: a retrospective clinical study, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • COVID-19-induced endotheliitis: emerging evidence and possible therapeutic strategies, 2021, British Journal of Haematology

Frequent co-authors of Israel Vlodavsky are:

  • Neta Ilan
  • Uri Barash
  • Jin-Ping Li
  • Miriam Gross-Cohen
  • Yasmin Kayal

The researcher has published extensively in scientific venues, including:

  • Cells
  • Matrix Biology
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Frontiers in Oncology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In addition to journal articles, Israel Vlodavsky has contributed to book publications, including the title Heparanase published by Springer Nature in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Endothelial cell-derived basic fibroblast growth factor: synthesis and deposition into subendothelial extracellular matrix

    Israel Vlodavsky;Judah Folkman;Robert Sullivan;Rafael Fridman

  • Mammalian heparanase: gene cloning, expression and function in tumor progression and metastasis.

    Israel Vlodavsky;Yael Friedmann;Michael Elkin;Helena Aingorn

  • A heparin-binding angiogenic protein--basic fibroblast growth factor--is stored within basement membrane.

    J Folkman;M Klagsbrun;J Sasse;M Wadzinski

  • Molecular properties and involvement of heparanase in cancer metastasis and angiogenesis

    Israel Vlodavsky;Yael Friedmann

  • VEGF145, a Secreted Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Isoform That Binds to Extracellular Matrix

    Zoya Poltorak;Tzafra Cohen;Revital Sivan;Yelena Kandelis

  • Basic fibroblast growth factor binds to subendothelial extracellular matrix and is released by heparitinase and heparin-like molecules.

    Pnina Bashkin;Susan Doctrow;Michael Klagsbrun;Carl Magnus Svahn

  • The binding of vascular endothelial growth factor to its receptors is dependent on cell surface-associated heparin-like molecules.

    H Gitay-Goren;S Soker;I Vlodavsky;G Neufeld

  • Regulation, function and clinical significance of heparanase in cancer metastasis and angiogenesis.

    Neta Ilan;Michael Elkin;Israel Vlodavsky

  • Permissive effect of the extracellular matrix on cell proliferation in vitro

    D Gospodarowicz;D Delgado;I Vlodavsky

  • Thrombin receptor overexpression in malignant and physiological invasion processes

    Sharona Even-Ram;Beatrice Uziely;Patrizia Cohen;Sorina Grisaru-Granovsky

  • Phosphorothioate Oligodeoxynucleotides Bind to Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor, Inhibit Its Binding to Cell Surface Receptors, and Remove It from Low Affinity Binding Sites on Extracellular Matrix

    Marina A. Guvakova;Leonid A. Yakubov;Israel Vlodavsky;John L. Tonkinson

  • Matrix metalloproteinase 2 releases active soluble ectodomain of fibroblast growth factor receptor 1.

    Ehud Levi;Rafael Fridman;Hua Quan Miao;Yong Sheng Ma

  • Heparanase as mediator of angiogenesis: mode of action

    Michael Elkin;Neta Ilan;Rivka Ishai-Michaeli;Yael Friedmann

  • Activated T lymphocytes produce a matrix-degrading heparan sulphate endoglycosidase.

    Yaakov Naparstek;Irun R. Cohen;Zvi Fuks;Israel Vlodavsky

  • Expression of heparanase by platelets and circulating cells of the immune system: possible involvement in diapedesis and extravasation.

    I Vlodavsky;A Eldor;A Haimovitz-Friedman;Y Matzner

  • Involvement of heparan sulfate and related molecules in sequestration and growth promoting activity of fibroblast growth factor.

    Israel Vlodavsky;Hua-Quan Miao;Benjamin Medalion;Pamela Danagher

  • Extracellular matrix-resident basic fibroblast growth factor: implication for the control of angiogenesis.

    Vlodavsky I;Fuks Z;Ishai-Michaeli R;Bashkin P

  • Morphological appearance, growth behavior and migratory activity of human tumor cells maintained on extracellular matrix versus plastic

    I. Vlodavsky;G.M. Lui;D. Gospodarowicz

  • Protein Kinase C Mediates Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Protection of Endothelial Cells against Radiation-induced Apoptosis

    Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman;Naomi Balaban;Maureen McLoughlin;Desiree Ehleiter

  • Extracellular sequestration and release of fibroblast growth factor: a regulatory mechanism?

    Israel Vlodavsky;Rachel Bar-Shavit;Rivka Ishar-Michael;Pnina Bashkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Neta Ilan
Neta Ilan Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Jin-Ping Li
Jin-Ping Li Uppsala University
Zvi Fuks
Zvi Fuks Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Denis Gospodarowicz
Denis Gospodarowicz University of California, San Francisco
Ralph D. Sanderson
Ralph D. Sanderson University of Alabama at Birmingham
Irun R. Cohen
Irun R. Cohen Weizmann Institute of Science
Arnon Nagler
Arnon Nagler Sheba Medical Center
Mark Pines
Mark Pines Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Benito Casu
Benito Casu Istituto G. Ronzoni
Gera Neufeld
Gera Neufeld Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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